External hard drives are a handy, inexpensive way to back up, archive and transport large amounts of data; they're indispensable for your small business. Storing data, however, is only half the ...

We compare NAS systems and external hard drives across key features, costs, and performance to help you decide which storage ...

Xolelwa Mzili’s PC no longer sees her external hard drive. Can she recover the files? Because they’re used heavily for backup and sneakernet, we tend to assume that every file on an external hard ...

Spotlight, the automatic file index and search utility on your Mac, automatically indexes files on external drives for searching. When you connect an external hard drive to your computer, files on the ...

Not all of your files are stored in the cloud. Learn how to move files between your Chromebook and an external hard drive, thumbdrive or SD card. Chromebooks are built with cloud in mind and offer a ...

A recent study of enterprise IT security decision makers conducted by Tresorit shows that majority of enterprises use additional encryption methods to boost the security of cloud collaboration and ...

While OS X makes external drives available to all users on the system, you can change this to ensure your files are only accessible by you. If you use an external disk drive with OS X, you may notice ...

While cloud storage has made things a bit less troublesome, most people will eventually max out the available space on their iPad or iPhone. From games and apps to music and more, there are thousands ...

Safely removing external drives before removing them might sound like old-school advice, but it's still important to keep your files healthy.